Senior Staff Software Development Engineer

🔥 14 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $156.4k - $260.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Dexcom

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1999

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Consulting • Manufacturing

Dexcom is a leading provider of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems, revolutionizing how people manage diabetes and track their glucose levels. Known for their best-in-class glucose biosensing technology, Dexcom offers products like the Dexcom G7 CGM system, which provides real-time glucose monitoring and insights to help individuals become healthier. Founded in 1999, Dexcom has consistently innovated in the field of diabetes management, empowering users to take control of their health with accurate and advanced glucose monitoring solutions. Their products are designed for both adults and children and do not require a prescription.

📋 Description

• Lead the architecture, design, and evolution of scalable cloud-native backend platforms, APIs, event-driven services, and data systems • Drive technical strategy and engineering excellence across multiple teams • Champion AI-assisted software development practices and establish standards, workflows, and best practices • Provide technical leadership across solution design, implementation, automated testing, performance optimization, security, observability, deployment, and operational readiness • Design and optimize distributed systems using GCP services such as Firestore, Cloud SQL, and Pub/Sub • Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, SRE, Data, and Engineering leaders on technical roadmaps and strategic initiatives • Lead modernization efforts for legacy platforms and services • Mentor and coach senior engineers • Improve developer experience, CI/CD automation, system observability, resiliency, and cloud cost optimization • Provide technical leadership during production incidents and critical escalations, including root cause analysis and corrective actions

🎯 Requirements

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline, and a minimum of 13+ years related experience, or a Master’s degree and 8+ years equivalent industry experience, or a PhD and 5+ years of experience • Extensive experience architecting and delivering large-scale distributed cloud-native systems • Deep expertise in backend development using Python, Kotlin, and modern software engineering practices for highly available, mission-critical applications • Proven track record designing scalable event-driven architectures using Pub/Sub, Kafka, or equivalent messaging and streaming platforms • Strong experience building data-intensive services utilizing Firestore, Cloud SQL, and other cloud-native persistence technologies • Expert knowledge of cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including security, reliability, observability, and cost optimization best practices • Demonstrated ability to lead technical strategy and influence architectural decisions across teams, organizations, and product areas • Strong experience with containerized and cloud-native deployment models, including Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices • Proven ability to drive adoption of AI-assisted development tools and workflows while maintaining high standards for software quality, security, and maintainability • Exceptional problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills • Experience mentoring senior engineers and serving as a recognized technical leader • Travel required: 0–5%

🏖️ Benefits

• A full and comprehensive benefits program • Growth opportunities on a global scale • Access to career development through in-house learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement • Home office workplace; not required to live within commuting distance of assigned Dexcom site • Flex workplace option may be available for employees within commuting distance of a Dexcom site